Hope...
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What hope is
What hope is
Hi, my name is Pastor Ronald Miller and it is great to be with you all. In the next few minutes I want to share with you how to connect with Hope. Hope is so intertwined and connected with everyone we do. Hope is connected to our character, our perseverance, how we endure in suffering…which is a part of life.
It is probably easy to define hope...
Lexham Theological Wordbook Concept Summary
In Hebrew, hope is expressed most commonly with the verbs קָוָה (qāwâ, “to wait”) and יָחַל (yāḥal, “to wait”) and nouns related to these. The verb qāwâ conveys a sense of waiting with expectation, while yāḥal may indicate waiting for a period of time with or without expectation.
Hope makes want to do stuff....I hope I see so and so today…I hope I pass my test, I hope I get to be on the team…When we were in Madagascar, we started an Evangelism Team as well as a School…LIVING HOPE. Played around with the acronyms of HOPE....having only positive expectations. So def and acronyms are easy to find but lets dissect this a bit more...
11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
So we know that this is about plans God has for us....2 sets of plans
1.Plans to prosper you, to give you a future, to give you HOPE
2. Not plans to harm you or plans of evil
We have either plan to choose. I call this scripts. We know the concept of a Script. A script from a Doctor. The correct reading from the doctor, gives the correct analysis. An incorrect analysis, can lead to undue suffering. Many people have the incorrect scripts given to them. The person who examined you, does not know you well enough to have given you the correct script. Your script you have been handed is the one spelling harm for you, death to you, (spiritually, mentally and emotionally). Some of people had the script enforced on them through culture, power, position, etc
But then some people choose to accept that script by their own choice.
38 So Saul clothed David with his armor, and he put a bronze helmet on his head; he also clothed him with a coat of mail.
39 David fastened his sword to his armor and tried to walk, for he had not tested them. And David said to Saul, “I cannot walk with these, for I have not tested them.” So David took them off.
A different script was given to David. Rememebr that this belongs to a King. It mus have been a special armour fit fr a king. You have to know that this armour was an armour of the king. It had things attached to it. When people saw that armour, they have kneel down, they have to respect for the armour, the armour carried a type of branding mentality. We know all about branding....brand clothes has to be worn. At one stage its Nike, the next it is Adida, the next stage it is VANS, Gucci, Supreme H&M....you name it…Many people in this world…lets direct it, many young people are wearing Saul’s clothing. It looks cool, people respect me when I am wearing this, I feel LIT when I wear this. Wrong script....!
Listen to what David says....and this is why this guy is so succesful in life...
39 David tried to walk but he could hardly budge. David told Saul, “I can’t even move with all this stuff on me. I’m not used to this.” And he took it all off.
Paralysed, handcuffed, dead, zoombied....and he would not be able to take on Goliath because his focus would be on the cool armour of getting used to it…wrong script
So we identify that there are two sets of plans in our lives. There is story of this wise old man…(illustration of the 2 dogs).
So let me close here…I
31 but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
Your hope is connected to being connected to God....who reads your script for you? Wh o has give your script to yu. Which one did you accept?